Termeno sulla strada del vino

The name of Termeno is a border. Attested as Traminno in the middle of the ninth century, as de Treminno at the beginning of the twelfth and as Tramin in 1248, it comes in all likelihood from the Latin terminus, the limit, because the village stood on the line that separated the territory of the Tridentini from that of the Isarci. From here also comes the name of a grape known everywhere, the aromatic Traminer, that is Gewürztraminer. Politically the village belonged for centuries to the prince-bishopric of Trento, and it was only under Austrian pressure that bishop Pietro Vigilio Thun ceded it in 1777.

Above the village, on the Kastelaz knoll, stands the church of San Giacomo, which holds two fresco cycles of different periods: the older, Romanesque, occupies the apse of the original church and is famous for the band of monstrous creatures painted along its lower part; in the late Gothic nave added in the fifteenth century there is instead a vast cycle signed by a Master Ambrogio and dated 1441. The parish church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta keeps fourteenth-century frescoes and an altarpiece by Martin Knoller. At the beginning of 2014, in the hamlet of Rungg, about four thousand cubic metres of rock came down: the largest boulder, of four hundred cubic metres, stopped at the door of a farmhouse without injuring anyone.